Time Without Pity

Time Without Pity

88 mins | Drama, Crime, Mystery | March 21, 1957

Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”

Time Without Pity

88 mins | Drama, Crime, Mystery | March 21, 1957

Time Without Pity
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Harlequin Productions Ltd
Original title Time Without Pity
Directors Joseph Losey
Writers Ben Barzman, Emlyn Williams

Cast

Michael Redgrave

as David Graham

Ann Todd

as Honor Stanford

Leo McKern

as Robert Stanford

Paul Daneman

as Brian Stanford

Peter Cushing

as Jeremy Clayton

Alec McCowen

as Alec Graham

Renée Houston

as Mrs. Harker

Lois Maxwell

as Vickie Harker

Richard Wordsworth

as Maxwell - the MP

George Devine

as Barnes - the Editor

Joan Plowright

as Agnes Cole

Ernest Clark

as Under Secretary

Peter Copley

as Prison Chaplain

Hugh Moxey

as Prison Governor

Dickie Henderson

as Comedian

John Chandos

as 1st Journalist

Vernon Greeves

as 2nd Journalist

Arnold Diamond

as 3rd Journalist

Julian Somers

as First Warder

Aubrey Richards

as Prison Gatekeeper

Gwynne Whitby

as Stanford's Housekeeper

Christina Lubicz

as Jennie Cole

Dervis Ward

as 1st Mechanic

David Lander

as 2nd Mechanic